Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:05:47 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 00/21] Introduce ACPI for ARM64 based on ACPI 5.1 |
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On 02/27/2015 02:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 27 February 2015 at 03:20, Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> wrote: >> On 02/25/2015 02:39 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: >>> >>> Changes since v8: >> >> >> I'm still debugging it, but v9 on the 4.0-rc1 kernel crashes after calling >> the UEFI boot time services exit function. That is, this line: >> >> status = sys_table->boottime->exit_boot_services(handle, mmap_key); >> >> in allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot() gets called, and then soon after it >> returns, the kernel crashes. It's really early because the UEFI exception >> handler is called. >> >> I did not have this problem with v8 patchset on 3.19. >> > > Are you not seeing this on v4.0-rc1 without the patchset applied?
You're right -- I get the same crash even without the patchset applied.
> Could the crash be inside the subsequent call to > SetVirtualAddressMap() instead of inside ExitBootServices()?
It looks that way. I'm going to have to debug that.
> If so, you have a firmware bug: Mark Rutland spotted a similar bug in > the AMD Seattle firmware, which has been fixed in the mean time. > It has to do with the firmware dereferencing the virtual mapping as it > is being installed, which violates the UEFI spec.
Thanks.
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